I loved this book! Sweeping aside conventional pieties, Jim Autry’s clear insights, told with wit and poetry, show how we may see traces of the divine shining through our everyday world.

Elaine Pagels
Princeton University

We don’t hear the phrase “Christian gentleman” much these days, but that is what James Autry is: generous, large-hearted, tolerant, funny, a man who finds the love of God wherever he can, who pays attention with his heart. Looking Around for God is a book vivid with life and fulfillments. Its honesty is deeply moving, and its irreverence is actually a form of reverence. It’s a book that Jesus would have enjoyed.

In Looking Around for God Jim Autry exposes a relationship to God that is direct and personal, that needs neither filter nor formula, a faith that has learned to take life as it comes and make do. In a few deft strokes, in one fell swoop, he picks at the most profound presuppositions of belief, tickles the intellect, pricks the conscience, and kicks us all in the seat of the pants. Read it—if you have a free and vital faith you’ll love it; if not, you won’t even get it but it’ll not hurt you.

James M. Dunn
The Divinity School at Wake Forest University

As you read Looking Around For God, you might as well be adding up everyone you love, or have ever loved. Whatever the figure, it will be the exact amount of people with whom you will wish to share this extraordinary gift.

Norman Lear

Jim Autry has written extensively about business and leadership. In this wonderful collection of prose and poetry, he writes about the spirit and the church with such an unorthodox slant, one wonders if he isn’t a prophet. The man’s a born poet, maybe even a frustrated preacher. It’s a rare gift; an exploration of how much faith there is in doubt and how much grace there is in poetry.

Rev. Patricia DeJong
First Congregational Church of Berkeley, CA